Psychology 2310A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Abnormal Psychology, Learned Helplessness, Normal Distribution

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2310A/B
• Professor: Hans

Document Summary

Assignments hard copy and turn it in article criteria. Summary of textbook section (important things that were touched on in the book that are in the article) Critical discussion (did they get the fats wrong, or right; issues and right things) Personal reflection (worth the least; less than half a page; your understanding of the disorder, and what the article is talking about; can use first person) Abnormality: relates to a number of mental health robles that have been classified as disorders. Abnormal psychology: views our area of abnormal psych as a psych learning, conditioning; behaviors outside of the norm. E. g. things that don"t have biological base, like anxiety. Mental illness: helps combat stigma; cant be blamed for having the disease, but ppl think they can. It gives a learned helplessness thing > if i have an illness, i cant do anything about it. Psychological disorder > more preffered bc they can do something about their illness.